Brian MacKenna, Nicholas DeVito, and Ben Goldacre Background The US FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA 2007) requires certain clinical trials to report their results onto ClinicalTrials.gov within one year of completion. […]
Year: 2018
Giovanni Rezza: Mandatory vaccinations in Italy—scientific evidence and political controversies
Vaccine mandates have become increasingly politicised in Italy, but policy must be guided by evidence […]
Colin Hutchinson: Our profession in today’s NHS—Doctors for the NHS essay competition
From its conception seventy years ago, the NHS has experienced tensions between the medical profession, the government of the day, and the civil servants that administer it. At various times […]
Richard Smith: A baby dies of measles
I had measles as a child. My brothers had measles. Everybody, as I remember, had measles as a child in Rotherhithe in the 1950s. But I don’t remember anybody dying, […]
Helen Macdonald: Overdiagnosis and the fear of being “normal”
Helen Macdonald discusses the key points from Day 1 of Preventing Overdiagnosis […]
Richard Lehman’s sunshine act
Alison Tonks speaks to Richard Lehman about writing research reviews and what he’ll be doing next […]
Ian Morris: We need to stop talking about GPs being “full time” or “part time”
Following the recent King’s Fund report on the future GP workforce, and subsequent press pieces discussing the increasing number of “part time GPs,” maybe the time has come to consider […]
Varduhi Sargsyan: Speaking up about the challenges of being a cancer patient in a developing country
Varduhi Sargsyan describes what it’s like to be a patient with cancer in a developing country, with all the attendant financial difficulties […]
The summer we woke up to the health impact of climate change
Climate change is something that everyone needs to take seriously, and healthcare professionals are no exception. The global weather this summer should make us all stop and think. As well […]
Samir Dawlatly: We need better ways to measure GP workload
If no-one knows how much work is being done and the toll it takes, then it becomes impossible to define how much workload is safe for a GP to do […]